{"id":8167,"date":"2020-06-26T22:53:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T02:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=8167"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:52:09","slug":"how-to-repair-a-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2020\/06\/how-to-repair-a-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"How to repair a Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shaun Bythell, a used bookseller in Scotland, has made a video showing how to repair a Kindle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7N76eWTWQ8\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[SPOILER ALERT] <br \/>Here&#8217;s my favorite still from the video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7N76eWTWQ8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"969\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-26-at-10.35.38-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-26-at-10.35.38-PM.jpg 969w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-26-at-10.35.38-PM-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-26-at-10.35.38-PM-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We already know that friends don&#8217;t let friends buy books from Amazon \u2014 Amazon&#8217; s business practices have reduced author income while reducing the profitability of bookstores to a razor-thin margin. Friends certainly don&#8217;t let friends buy Kindles, because they don&#8217;t want their friends being tracked by Amazon \u2014 no one needs a faceless multinational corporation learning exactly how much of every book you read, and what you underline in your book, and what color your underwear is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <em>good<\/em> friend will tell their friends to buy their new books from a place like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semcoop.com\">Seminary Coop Bookstore<\/a>, or used books from a place like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powells.com\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a> (but not from ABE, it&#8217;s owned by Amazon), or if you&#8217;re in the U.K. from Shaun Bythell&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-bookshop.com\">The Bookshop<\/a> &#8212; or better yet, buy your books from your local bookseller, so they don&#8217;t go out of business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaun Bythell, a used bookseller in Scotland, has made a video showing how to repair a Kindle: [SPOILER ALERT] Here&#8217;s my favorite still from the video: We already know that friends don&#8217;t let friends buy books from Amazon \u2014 Amazon&#8217; s business practices have reduced author income while reducing the profitability of bookstores to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2020\/06\/how-to-repair-a-kindle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to repair a Kindle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[950],"class_list":["post-8167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-culture","tag-amazon-is-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10523,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions\/10523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}